One of Britain’s most successful para dressage athletes, Sophie Christiansen, has announced that it’s time to hang up her riding boots. Over the past two decades, she has amassed 30 senior championship medals, 24 of them gold, including 10 medals won across four Paralympic Games appearances.
“After a 20-year competitive career, I have decided to retire from para dressage,” announced Sophie earlier today. “I was once told, ‘when you know, you know’. I used to wonder what this meant, but now I realise that I am more excited about the possibilities of what I could do outside of the sport than doing another four-year cycle of highs and lows as an athlete.”
